Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-04-18
THE PROHIBITIONISTS
to Warm up at ParkersburG-
The Latest News.

Special Tslsqrum To the Slmd'ty Register.
PARKERsBURG, w. Va, April l6.-The
Prohibitionists are beginning work in earn
est, in this community at least, and those
who are opposed TO the adoption OF the
Amendment should not deceive themselves
by any vain hope that the enemy is rest
ing II is the intention, rs your CORE
spondent has gathered from conversation
with the leading ProhibitiOnists here, and
there are none more outspoken and deter
mined in the State, to make a hot, vigOr-
Gus campaign from now until the night of
election i'm November, lSSS. All avenues
of communication are to bo worked. The
school house and the church, the religious
cOnclave and the political convention, the
Teachers Institute and the Farmers Club
are all to be used for all that can he got
out of them to make votes Tor the amend
ment. 4 central committee, composed OF
the following persons have been select
ed: First Senatorial District, George w.
Atkinson; Second, George W. Kinsey;
Third, David McCiregor; Fourth, Dave ID.
johnson; Fifth, J. l.. HenSiey; Sixth,
Thomas H. Hodges; Seventh, William Nj.
Reynolds; Eighth, c. II. Payne; Ninth,
Robert J. Simpson; Eleventh i. Il. tey-
nolds; Twelfth, T. K. CarSkadOn; Thlr-
teenth, Miss Flora B. Siler.
The following compose the State Central
Committee: Dave ID. Johnson, Of Wood,
Chairman; Geo. w. Atkinson, of Ohio
Jas. III. Ferguson, of Kamawha; VIM. n.
Stricken, vi Richie; Mrs. NJ. NJ. Snow, OF
Wood.
No party lines are drawn here, and il Is
on the ground of nOn-partisan efforts that
the Prohibitionists expect TO win. Before
long the State is to be entered at all quar-
ters by prominent male and female PrOhl'
bitiOn speakers, among whom will lie
ex-senator Colquitt, of Georgia; Mis-
Francis Willard, Senator Blair OF
New Hampshire; DIR. Leonard, OF
Ohio, and, il possible, Senators MaXcy
and Reagan, OF Texas. So far there has
been no formal announcement that st..
John is to be here. lie is too bold fraud
to be recognized now by the wiseamong the
ProhihtionistS, and the State will doubt
less be spared the infection of his pres
ence
Il il now generally understood that
both the Gas Company aud the Electric
Light Company will take the case just
decided to the Supreme Court of Appeals
In the meantime the Electric Company
are working like beavers putting in poles
and up wires. The company expect 10
have the lights turned on by the first OF
July and perhaps sooner.
The clipping couple reported few days
ago have made this city their home, The
young lady is daughter of ChaS. Knott,
ut Jefferson county, and her husband is
VIM. Beazley, for a year past fireman ON
the Ohio River railroad. The marriage
was quite romantic, rs the young lady, to
overcome the obstacles interpOSed by her
unwilling parents, had to flee to this city,
when she was met by Heazley.
At the last meeting of the City Council,
in response to the petition OF Capt. Muhle-
man, of the Andes, the following ordinance
was passed That the wharfage rate for
through passenger steamers from Cincln-
nati and Charleston to Wheeling and Pitts
burg, lying at the wharf, shall be Sl.25
for every twenty-four hours or fraction
thereof.
The latest railroad project for Parkers-
burg il the announced change in the ter
minus of the Cincinnati, Dayton and Bal
timore railroad Ia branch OF the b. " o.
from Pomeroy, Ohio, to Belpre Just across
from this city. The line has been surveyed
and work begins ut once. 1t will follow
the Ohio river, on the Ohio side, and he a
competing line for the Ohio River road. 1t
will eventually give the people of this sec
ton another road to Cincinnati.